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"Big Carnivorous Feast" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, December 8, 2010 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Tom Waits Tango Till They're Sore Rain Dogs Island 1985. Happy Birthday to Mr. Waits (yesterday)
Tom Waits Big Black Mariah Rain Dogs Island
The Thin Man Picnic Greasy Heart Contraphonic 2005
* Sassparilla Bruised By Tears / Death's Black Train Ramshackle self-released new from Portland, OR
* Magda Get Down Goblin From The Fallen Page Minus new from Detroit ex-pat now doing his?/her? techno thing in Berlin...
* Chris Kenner Wind The Clock (VA) Dr. Boogie Presents Wasa Wasa Sub Rosa
Arthur Alexander Every Day I Have To Cry Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter Hacktone a classic
New Pornographers From Blown Speakers Electric Version Matador 2003
Los Amigos Invisibles Que Rico Arepa 3000: A Venezuelan Journey Into Space Luaka Bop 2001
* Novalima Tumbala Coba Coba Cumbancha new from Peru
* Eero Koivistoinen Latin Power 3rd Version Porter Finnish jazz/fusion/improv from 1973
* Tribe Wake Up Brothers A Message From The Tribe: An Anthology of Tribe Records 1972-1976 Universal Sound
* Jonquil Fighting Smiles One Hundred Suns Dovecote New from Oxford, England
* In The Country Slow Down (VA) Twenty Centuries of Stony Sleep Rune Grammofon celebrating 100 releases on the label w/ this comp...
Bob Dylan North Country Blues The Times They Are A-Changin' Columbia 1964
Tom Verlaine Curtains Open Around Thrill Jockey 2006
* Bleu Singin' In Tongues Four The Major Label new
The Clash London Calling London Calling Epic 1979
Summer Set Lost To The Frost 3x4 Pox World Empire split CD in '06 with The Sames, Schooner, and Erie Choir
Big Star You Can Have Me Keep An Eye On The Sky (box set) Rhino The song is from their album "Third" a.k.a. Sister Lovers, which will be recreated live with full orchestra, tomorrow and Friday at Cat's Cradle: http://bigstarthird.com
Big Star Nightime Keep An Eye On The Sky (box set) Rhino " " "
* Of Montreal Our Riotous Defects (feat. Janelle Monae) False Priest Polyvinyl the new one...
* Gary War Engur Police Water EP Sacred Bones new from NYC
* Stereolab Two Finger Symphony Not Music Drag City their newest
Red Sovine One Is A Lonely Number (VA) 20 Original Country Hits Artistic fab old LP from the mid 60s
Whistler & His Jug Band Pig Meat Blues (VA) Violin, Sing The Blues For Me: African-American Fiddlers, 1926-1949 Old Hat 1927
Dom Flemons Viper Mad Demos - guitar, 4-string banjo, harmonica, and jug self-released Song by Sidney Bechet, an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. Dom is a member of Carolina Chocolate Drops.
John Snipes Going Where I've Never Been Before (VA) Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia Smithsonian Folkways
* Wooden Wand Sleepwalking After Midnight Death Seat Young God new
The Strawbs Lemon Pie The Best of the Strawbs A&M mid 70s
King Missile The Way To Salvation The Way To Salvation Atlantic #45 on WXDU's year-end chart in 1991
The Velvet Underground Run Run Run Peel Slowly And See Polydor
The Animals C-Jam Blues In The Beginning Wand Live recording in Dec. 1963, Sonny Boy Williamson (who'd hired them to back him) heard on drums. A week later Sonny Boy was dead.